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With 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, this would make a great pfSense/OpenBSD router. Too bad the price will be over $100 though, not including a DDR4 SODIMM, but tha
by mrpippy 8y ago
With 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, this would make a great pfSense/OpenBSD router.
Too bad the price will be over $100 though, not including a DDR4 SODIMM, but that’s the price of Intel. Great to see a well-known boardmaker coming out with an up-to-date x86 option.
- gcb0 8y agowont they made themselves irrelevant? now it's the same price of any itx board. with the same high power profile. for the last 4 years anyone could spend $40 on a itx board with 12v power input, plus $40 for a fully featured ia64 AMD5350 APU, and have exactly what you describe for 35W (or 55 under load)
- mattst88 8y ago> ia64 I wouldn't normally comment on something like this, but I noticed this mistake twice in the linked post as well. ia64 refers to Itanium, while amd64/x86-64/x64 refer to the 64-bit version of x86.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoYeah, it was strange to see that in the original post, so for a moment I thought they meant both amd64 and ia64.
- ekr 8y agoOdroid was never the cheapest option, but they provided outstanding software support and great product reliability. Now, in the x86 space both of those things (software support, reliability) are not an issue. Besides, there are much cheaper options available on the market (e.g. https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cSJOvljS https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cSJOvljS , same platform with 4GB ddr4, 64gb emmc, case, power supply for ~$140 shipping included). So I reckon you're right, this product won't be too successful.
- whyagaindavid 8y agoCan u recommend me one? Very much interested in itx with 12V power. Thanks
- nerdponx 8y agoDoes that include NICs and RAM?
- agapon 8y agoHow about things like (readily available) GPIO, I²C, etc?
- fake-name 8y agoNope, both NICs are Realtek. It'll make a great flaming pile of shit. I've never had realtek network hardware that wasn't unstable under load on linux.
- type0 8y agoEven when it is stable one would never achieve the same speed with their implementation (well, some occasional segfaults in FreeBSD depending on the NIC and pfsense version), Realtek can work good enough -just not optimal and not always reliable. Too bad - otherwise it looks like a good board.
- arghwhat 8y agoNever had problems with Realtek on Linux in recent years. Had a lot of problems with it under *BSD a decade ago, though. I still prefer Intel NICs, but IIRC, Realtek works just fine now. The new network antichrist is "Killer" WiFi NICs
- bpye 8y agoAnd in my experience Killer ethernet NICs, though maybe they have gone the way of the dodo by now (I hope so).
- osivertsson 8y agoWhich Realtek Ethernet NICs are we talking about? For me they have been rock-solid using Debian for many years across different generations of Realtek NICs. On the other hand I have experienced no end of issues with Intel 82574L, e.g. http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1730550 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1730550
- rjsw 8y agoI need support for jumbo frames on the external interface. Intel NICs provide it, most other brands don't.
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- adetrest 8y ago> With 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, this would make a great pfSense/OpenBSD router. Please note that opnsense also exists. It does most (all?) of what pfsense can do but has a much saner organisation and team behind it that doesn't resort to character assassination to promote their product. I'll spare you the drama but if you care at all, look it up and choose opnsense rather than pfsense.